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When Should You Stop Reading A Book?

Here’s how I made the call on Percival Everett’s ‘James,’ a National Book Award winner and Pulitzer frontrunner

Dec 29, 2024

Percival Everett and the cover of “James”

Dec 29, 2024

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Think You Can’t Get Sued For Putting Real People In Fiction? Think Again.

You can’t protect yourself as a creator just by changing names — but here are 5 tips from that could help

Oct 14, 2024

Still from “The Queen’s Gambit” on Netflix

Oct 14, 2024

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‘I’m In My 20s And Want To Be A Writer. What Should I Be Doing Right Now?’

The brutal truths nobody tells you about launching a writing career when you’re just a few years out of school

Mar 5, 2024

Sucess Ahead road sign

Mar 5, 2024

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What Do Publishers Really Pay You For A Book?

Learn from these 63 mind-blowing (or heartbreaking) ‘advances’ paid to bestselling or barely selling authors

Mar 31, 2023

What Do Publishers Really Pay You For A Book?

Mar 31, 2023

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What Happened When An MSNBC Analyst Came To My Ruby-Red Town

A TV commentator’s talk showed why it’s important to resist the growing threats to free speech

Jun 29

Barbara McQuade and “Attack from Within”

Jun 29

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Lit Life

Would You Cross A Picket Line To Promote Your Book?

A new partnership between Oprah and Starbucks shows the awful moral dilemma more writers may face

Jun 23

Oprah Winfrey on her podcast with author Claire Keegan

Jun 23

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Lit Life

How A $40 Million Deal For A № 1 Bestselling Author Hurts All Writers

Taylor Jenkins Reid’s big payday is further proof that publishing has become a winner-take-all game

Jun 18

Taylor Jenkins Reid and the cover of her novel “Atmosphere”

Jun 18

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What’s So Great About Hemingway’s Most Famous Short Story?

Join the conversation in my classic-short-stories club

Jun 13

Black-and-white photo of a young Ernest Hemingway in Africa in 1934

Jun 13

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The Secret Codes Of Book Critics

The hidden meanings of 25 clichés overused by reviewers that may not help you as a writer

Jun 11

Cover of “The Accomplice” by 50 cent

Jun 11

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Lit Life

A ‘Historic’ Win for India and Its Writers

Why Banu Mushtaq deserved her major book award for stories about a long-overlooked group of women

May 29

Color photo of Deepa Bhasthi and Banu Mushtaq at the IBP ceremony

May 29

Janice Harayda

Janice Harayda

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Critic, novelist, award-winning journalist. Former book editor of the Plain Dealer and book columnist for Glamour. Words in NYT, WSJ, and other major media.

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